FINDING Y/OUR STEADY
online campfire | emotion regulation | community focusing practice
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Being in our bodies together - group somatic practice through Gendlin’s Focusing process
Each week will consist of a sharing circle, a guided attunement and direction from me followed by practicing Gene Gendlin’s focusing method.
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Find balance between caring for the world and staying true to your integrity whilst tending to your ability to regulate emotions and connect with steadiness within.
We live in an overtly political world and caring for each other sits at the very heart of our shared humanity. Though sometimes this can lead to feelings of impotence, overwhelm, nihilism, drowning in emotions and so on. This course values the importance of staying in touch with our personal power, our ability to act in the world alongside our ability to feel deeply rather than numb out.
The idea of complete security is probably not possible. If we reflect on our lives it becomes more and more obvious that we can't control life, despite our attempts.
And yet we do have a need to feel secure, steady, balanced, centred, resourced, resilient (however you choose to call this experience).
The security that we are looking for is a connection to a deeper sense of self which secures us at a deeper level of being, secures us in the ground of being.
We need to cultivate this foundational sense of self-in-presence otherwise we will most probably locate our entire sense of security in the outer world, which is at the very least problematic.
These zoom gatherings will be informed by variety of embodiment practices alongside Gendlin’s Focusing method, plenty of useful tools informed by my Buddhist practice, Focusing and Trauma training. The aim is gather in community, and to practice the art of emotional regulation so that we can stay centred and effective in the world, for our communities and loved ones.
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This course offers a means to:
Explore what it might mean to keep our hearts open whilst being in contact with steady ground.
Find balance between caring for the world and staying true to your integrity whilst tending to your ability to regulate emotions and connect with steadiness within.
Open to a lived experience of Equanimity; how to be equally open to seemingly paradoxical feelings and experiences… the sorrow and joy, the uncertainty and steady ground, the tragedy and the beauty of life.
Resource yourself through emotional regulation skills.
Connect with our common humanity.
Deal with overwhelm.
Learn to deepen your understanding of tools that are extremely useful in therapeutic, coaching and facilitated environments.
What is Focusing?
“It is a moment by moment way of ‘coming home’ to yourself. It is an exquisitely sensitive way of listening to or sensing what our (inner) world is telling us, often in the form of subtle feelings/sensations, in a way that is safe and gentle. It offers a creative and quietly profound way of being even with what we find most difficult and challenging. In focusing we are often pleasantly surprised by fresh or new spaces emerging, even from ‘impossibly stuck’ places. It is, in my experience a deeply satisfying process allowing my heart and soul space to breathe and be itself, to find its own sense of rightness.”
- Simon McKibbin
My Approach
This course will be informed by my training in Identity Orientated Psychotrauma Therapy, Gendlin’s Focusing method, and my background in Mindfulness and Buddhism alongside my confidence in Embodiment skills mainly but not exclusively developed through generative coaching certifications.
Testimonials
If you have a chance to work with Natasha seize it. She is a rare gift of quiet determination, deep compassion and authentic wisdom. Thanks to her gentle way, and the nurturing space she holds I am a complete convert to Focusing and its value as a tool for integration and expectance. I feel Natasha has given me a gift that will resonate for years.
- Doug
Natasha is adept at holding a group. She is playful and fun and yet is able to go to those deep places and access the emotions needed to help me feel safe and held.
Each week I learnt a little more about focusing. Natasha’s experience of Focusing transmitted in a natural way that was more experiential than intellectual. I came away from the course with a better feeling for the work and a real urge to do more.
- Stephen
I’ve never done any of this somatic type of work and its wonderful fo me I need it. I have been a bit disconnected. Maybe we all are, from our body a lot of the time? So to start looking for the experiences in the body - it centres me right away. And I got right out of fight or flight today. I still feel a bit sad because I know something is waiting for me to attend to, but I also feel calm and I do generally feel calm after theses session so I know its working on a deep level. “
Participant Level 1 Focusing
Natasha, your presence is very strong over the internet. I felt you holding us, giving to us with this very strong kind of connection. There’s a strong intimacy with this work and I felt very held even even though we were working online. And today, stroking and squeezing and the thing with my scalp I’m so glad to know that. I realise I needed that very much. I feel I’ve been bought to such a different kind of understanding of the world - that ‘this vast blue sky’ or ‘this field’ is here all of the time and we can open into it through this feeling of sensations. So I’ve been really blown away, I really thankful.
Participant Level 1 Focusing
This course has been perfect timing fro me I feel that I’ve discovering my body for the first time in my life, feeling safe in my body for the first time. There are new worlds to explore and new ways to approach mediation that isn’t just working with my mind but its being present with my body. Because I’m here with me all the distraction fall away - that’s been such a revelation. There a lot of insight in wisdom in what you have shared - this has been very special.
Participant Level 1 Focusing
Completing this Focusing Introduction felt like being in a space of soft yielding. Focusing has allowed me to deepen into the warrens of the body to uncover and meet the known, the unknown and the yet-to-be. To orient more accurately towards understanding and sensing the mind-body connection. Seeing this unfold in the everyday life has been such a revelatory experience. Like following the invisible thread of something you instinctively recognise as important and, at the same time, being fully aware that there is so much more to it than you currently know. And really wanting to know more. Natasha facilitates this practice with mettle, authenticity and great tenderness.
Egle